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World Trade Center monument at Zadroga Field, North Arlington, New Jersey. The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 (H.R. 847; Pub. L. 111–347 (text)) is a U.S. law to provide health monitoring and aid to the first responders, volunteers, and survivors of the September 11 attacks.
The Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act (H.R. 33, Pub. L. 114–3 (text)) is a bill that amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude volunteer hours of volunteer firefighters and emergency medical personnel from counting towards the calculation of the number of a firm’s full-time employees for purposes of certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act. [1]
The system provides the survivors and the emergency personnel with information to locate and assist each other during a disaster. SERS allows to submit help requests to a MATLAB-based mission center connecting first responders, apps, search-and-rescue dogs, a 6-feet-tall humanoid, robots, drones, and autonomous aircraft and ground vehicles.
EMI offers a full-spectrum emergency management curriculum with more than 500 courses available to the integrated emergency management community, which includes: FEMA staff and disaster employees; Federal partners; State, Tribal, and local emergency managers; volunteer organizations; and first responders from across the Nation. EMI supports ...
The Emergency Response Guidebook: A Guidebook for First Responders During the Initial Phase of a Dangerous Goods/Hazardous Materials Transportation Incident (ERG) is used by emergency response personnel (such as firefighters, paramedics and police officers) in Canada, Mexico, and the United States when responding to a transportation emergency involving hazardous materials.
No Responders Left Behind is a Canadian-American documentary television film, directed by Rob Lindsay and released in 2021. [1] The film profiles the efforts of John Feal and Jon Stewart to advocate for passage and maintenance of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act to compensate and assist first responders who have suffered a myriad of health problems relating to the September ...
The First Responder Anthrax Preparedness Act is a law introduced in the United States Senate by U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire). The law will set up a pilot program that provides anthrax vaccines from the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile to first responders, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would create a tracking system for those who receive the vaccine, and the ...
The first edition of Essentials of Fire Fighting was published in 1978 and subsequent editions have been published in 1983, 1992, 1998, 2008, and 2013. The latest edition (7th) was first released in January 2019.